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Millions. Same reason it's not as simple to meditate and simply visualize what kind of house you want, and having your house build itself overnight. It's hard work. I make games for a living. It's not uncommon for me to spend the whole day working on just one issue, just one tiny, barely perceptible behavior that most players wouldn't even notice. Imagine how many potential issues a game live AOE4 can have. It's a job for a game studio with 100+ people, each working within their own specialization. If you want to make games as a solo dev, you have to humble the shit out of yourself. Make something retro. Something that wouldn't look out of place on a NES in 1989. That's possible to create alone, but guess what, even that will take you months, if not years of hard work.

You should watch this if you're worried about AI "taking over". It's a silly fantasy, I don't know why Musk is so obsessed by it. Probably childhood trauma.

AI is quite dumb in its current form. It sounds impressive but when you actually work with it you realize it's pretty basic shit. I wouldn't lose my sleep over it.

MDMA - I only tried it once - to me felt like going crazy. It felt to me like a severely amplified manic state with euphoria and a desire to love and hug everyone, and tell them how you love them. LSD isn't like that at all, LSD opens up a dimensional door that escapes description.

Mushrooms. Probably my favorite psychedelic. It seems gentler compared to others, and has more of a fairy tale vibe rather than the mechanical vibe of some other psychedelics. LSD. Tried just once, not long ago. Amazing substance. Makes you feel like the Buddha. Salvia Divinorum. Visionary entheogen. About three million times weirder than a proper heroic dose of mushrooms. Cannabis. You don't really know about Cannabis unless you've taken a ridiculously high oral dose. Reality shattering, although in a very different way than the "true" psychedelics. Not a very pleasant experience, in fact you couldn't pay me enough money for me to ever want to repeat it. I tried some other shit like MDMA once - I don't think that's really a psychedelic, although it can have psychedelic-like effects. Gas fumes twice or 3 times, stupid I know. But also gets you in the same psychedelic state as mushrooms. Salvia was weirdest for me by ten million parsecs. The reason I avoid psychedelics now is because Salvia showed me enough. Even DMT, I don't care what it's like. At all.

It's funnier than that, because you're imagining that you're imagining that you're imagining them. Words make no sense and it's unwise to rely on words.

You never know. Maybe the janitor in a building you work at is secretly enlightened.

I remember accessing strange dimensions as a kid, not unlike those I encountered much later in life on psychedelics. The one I remember most is a kind of "red" dimension with no gravity, where everything was soft and fluffy, geometry was non-Euclidean and unlike what we're used to. Like a point would poke inwards or outwards and this would create strange kind of shearing, it was very beautiful visually. I remember the feeling of redness and deep love when I was there. Pretty sure those were my first "mystical" experiences. Although as a kid I though that was just normal experience, it took me a while to realize that it's not.

Literally the entire Seinfeld. My favorite show of all times, by a mile.

@alpha_ulrich I have way too many projects going on at the moment, so it's a pass for me at this point in time. For perspective, typically I charge 50 to 100 bucks per hour (depending on how complex the project is), a full game engine usually takes months to develop so you can get a rough idea that it would add up quick. Your description is also way too vague for me to tell you anything substantial, it could be much simpler than I expect, or much more complex than I expect, you have to really define it well before someone can give you a proper overview. I would even suggest you create a detailed GDD (game design document) that you can share with people you would potentially hire. That will make it MUCH easier for them to evaluate the complexity of your project and for you to understand the targets you want to reach. You can probably find a cheaper programmer than me, but make _absolutely sure_ to analyze their prior work in depth. There's a lot of people out there who don't know what they're doing, and those who do know typically charge a lot. So just keep that in mind. Good luck!

You can find skilled game developers on https://forums.tigsource.com/ under Jobs section. Probably the best source I know of, although it's gotten a bit less popular over the years. Another one to try is https://gamedev.net/. In contrast to what Leo said, I would avoid upwork, freelancer and similar sites because they're overrun by cheap labor from India, very hard to find competent people there. Not impossible, just hard. Go straight to game developer forums or chatrooms (IRC/discord/etc), you'll find skilled people there faster. Know that game developers are expensive. I could write an engine for you but I charge a lot.

It's like when people go somewhere nice and then all they do is take photos, without really enjoying the view themselves.

Yes, but maybe not as intensely. Would you really want to live in constant peak ecstasy? The force would tear you apart.

No such thing as mere chance. Disagreed, karma has absolutely everything to do with what happens to you. Agreed. The closer you are to truth the more harmonious your life is. The circumstances of your life dynamically adapt to the pureness of your awareness. The video I posted is simply an instance of highly concentrated karma.

It's the force that rearranges reality itself

So, this is a pretty good Salvia trip report. He specifically talks about transforming into an inanimate object and living a "life" as one. Having experienced something fairly similar on Salvia I can tell you this ain't bullshit. Its mindfucks you to an extreme degree. This is why most people aren't fans of the experience. But this can give you some insight into this topic from the perspective of the post-rational, rather than rational, naive reductionism.

That's why I enjoy having a garden. A home-grown tomato is absolutely delicious, juicy, sweet. Store bought tomatoes look great but when you bite them it's all water and no taste.

You think humans have a single POV? You can experience the world from a billion points from your body alone, that's without even going into pure mental states. You can concentrate on one point on your left leg and if you do it for long enough you will start to experience reality through that point alone. The mind is much, much more powerful than you probably realize.

Yes, I'm just an idiot without a nuanced worldview, what gave it away? For the record, I'm _NOT_ against vaccines. I'm against 1) guilt-shaming others into taking vaccines and 2) acting as if putting a pharmaceutical into your body doesn't come with a set of risks. As long as those are satisfied I have 0 arguments against anything.

According to shamanic traditions, everything is alive, including rocks. The POV of the rock is simply so different to yours than you could never envision what it's like to be one. You'd have to literally be a rock to understand. Salvia tends to show its users what it's like to be inanimate objects. Not that I recommend using it.

Start a petition.

Good and evil are words. God is a word. Reality transcends words. The reason why god ultimately can't be evil is simple, good and evil don't exist. All that exists is universal love out of which everything is made of. This love transcends the boundaries set up by our concepts and by our language. This love is the true mystery, there isn't an end to it. How much god's love can you stand becomes the real problem.

@MarkP I disagree that Leo is a hack, some of his content contains deep wisdom rarely found elsewhere. However I do believe that lately he's been experiencing an enormous ego backlash. His ego enjoys this authority he's built with his work, but this is the wrong path. The right path is that of humbleness. The only reason why anyone wants other people vaccinated is ultimately selfishness. YOU want to survive. And YOU feel your survival is threatened by people not taking vaccines, I get it. But this is not objective reality, this is a fantasy. If you know you're god, if you're truly without ego, then it doesn't matter one bit who gets vaccinated or not, you love everyone all the same. Something Leo isn't showing to be capable of.

How is it you people can't see your own hypocrisy? Is your head really so far up your butt? What you're doing here is picking the lowest common denominator and then using it to fuel your own agenda. It's exactly the same as someone pointing at David Icke and then forming a picture of spirituality around what he says. It's easier that way, sweep all nuance under the rug, who needs that anyway right? Try and find sources where doctors, immunologists, infectologists with 10, 20, 30, 40 years of direct experience in the field talk AGAINST these vaccines, and then argue against that. That would at least be honest, even if you disagree. Of course you don't have the balls for that, it's easier to find a group of total idiots and then pretend everyone fits in that basket. Unbelievable.